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In 2025, Africa’s technological landscape entered a critical inflection point. What began years ago as a tentative exploration of digital capabilities, pilot projects in mobile-money, isolated cloud experiments, and early-stage analytics, is now evolving into large-scale, strategic deployment across businesses, governments, and financial institutions. The continent is no longer “testing the waters”, it is building […] The post Financial Security (FinSec) Series with Dr Philip Takyi: Africa’s Tech Pivot 2025: […]

By Dr. Kofi Anokye OWUSU-DARKO Modern government was built on measurement. The metrics that enabled the state to scale, standardise, and control complex administrative systems were once among its greatest strengths. In the era of digital transformation, however, those same metrics risk holding it back. Today, digital transformation is not just a technical exercise — […] The post Public sector digital transformation: Beyond KPIs towards an agile mind-reset appeared first […]

Barely twenty-four hours after fire ravaged a cluster of mechanic shops at Sofoline in Kumasi, another inferno swept through the Anwona Market near Afful Nkwanta. The blaze, which reportedly started around 10 p.m. in a section where flammable materials were stored, destroyed shops, merchandise and equipment painstakingly built over years. Once again, traders watched helplessly […] The post Reflections by S.M.A: When fire becomes routine, we have failed appeared first […]

For many Ghanaian families, the sea is not a policy space or an economic sector; it is the kitchen. It feeds homes in all parts of Ghana. Think of our Ghanaian fishing communities: from Jamestown to Elmina and Axim to Keta and their surrounding villages. The sea supports women who rise before dawn to smoke […] The post Your environmental spotlight with Edna OBIRI: When the sea stops feeding us: […]